Arp 286 (NGC 5566, NGC 5569, & NGC 5560)

Arp 286 is made up of three interacting galaxies, NGC 5560, NGC 5566, and NGC 5569 located approximately 80 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. NGC 5566 is a barred spiral galaxy and the largest of the trio at 150,000 light-years in diameter. It has a very distinct dust lane on the upper portion and to travel with one of the broad arms. This galaxy has a yellow tint while its closest and smallest neighbor, NGC 5569, has blue tint. NGC 5560 has a yellow core and blue outer portion.

I imaged this about a month ago while it was in a good location for me. I found this object while searching Stellarium and ironically I saw that Michael Feigenbaum had just posted a fabulous version of this object. I am happy with how my version turned out although there is not as much detail as I had seen on other versions. I only collected RGB data but wish I would have collected some Hydrogen. Also, this happens to correspond to when the Alberta smoke began to affect our skies so my next few images may be iffy.

Arp 286 (NGC 5566, NGC 5569, & NGC 5560)  
Dates: 5-17-23, 5-18, 5-25
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC-Pro
Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 800
Barlow: None
Focal Length: 2032mm (native), 1400mm
F/10 (native), F/7
Focal Reducer: Celestron 0.7 Reducer Lens
Mount: Orion Atlas Pro
Filter Adaptor: ZWO Filter Drawer
Filter: Optolong Luminosity
Focuser: ZWO EAF
Autoguiding: ASI120 Mini attached to an Orion ST80
Exposure: Lum 277 x 90
Gain: 139
Offset 0
Temp: 0 C
Processing: Asiair app, PixInsight, Photoshop, BlurXT, NoiseXT, StarX

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